Animal-trap



No Modem T. H. COTTRELL.

ANIMAL TRAP.v

No. 563,748. Patentd July 14, 1896,

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tending' through the eyes of the platforms and hinging them to the cage or receptacle, spiral springs disposed on the pintles, located be tween the eyes of the platforms and provided at their terminals with oppositely-disposed arms,engaging the lower faces of the platforms and the adjacent portions of the cage or receptacle, resilient rods mounted on the top of the cage or receptacle and engaging the upper 1o faces of the tilting platforms, and abait-support located over the platform, substantiuibf* as described.

In testimony that I Claim the foregoing` is my own I have hereto aixed my signature ui the presence of two Witnesses.

THOMAS II. COTTRELL.

XVitnesses GEO. W STINE, A. C. RIGLER. 

